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Hongkong.

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Rcc 10 MAY 07)

Government House,

Hongkong, 9th. April, 1907.

My Lord,

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In continuation of my Despatch

No. 46 of the 16th. ultimo and with reference to previous

correspondence on the subject of the application of the

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for permission

to increase their capital, I have the honour to transmit

in duplicate a copy of a Bill which the Corporation desire

to have introduced in the Legislative Council at its forth-

-coming session, and to request that I may be informed by

telegraph whether there is any objection on the part of

His Majesty's Government to this Bill becoming law.

2.

In the event of the Bill being

approved it will, I presume, be unnecessary to retain the

suspending clause, which has been added in accordance with

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the instructions given in Your Lordship's telegram of the

lat. February last.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, X.G.,

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&C.

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I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient,

humble servant,

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Governor, &C..

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